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SALT LAKE CITY — Tony Finau’s run of bogey-free golf on the PGA Championship got here to an finish on the again 9 of Friday’s second spherical.
However that is about the one damaging to his recreation in the intervening time.
The Rose Park native completed 27 holes with no bogey, hit some bother on the again 9, and recovered to shoot 2-under 69 and 4 photographs again of the lead Friday at Valhalla Golf Membership in Louisville, Kentucky.
On a day the place Scottie Scheffler opened the morning in jail earlier than capturing 66, and Xander Schauffele maintained his lead, Finau quietly put collectively one other spherical that has him simply 4 photographs off the chief’s two-day whole of 12-under 130.
The Lehi resident who additionally retains a house in Scottsdale, Arizona, opened his second spherical with back-to-back birdies earlier than making the flip at 2-under 33. He hit a tough patch on the again 9, carding double bogey on the par-4, 478-yard twelfth gap in between a pair of birdies, however rallied with a birdie on the par-5 No. 18 to complete in a three-way tie for eighth at 8-under total.
“As your profession unfolds, you like taking part in good golf,” Finau mentioned after Thursday’s opening spherical, when he shot 65. “I feel on the finish of the day, there is not any query. Once more, typically the outcomes go your approach, typically they do not.
“However you retain making an attempt to stack up wins every day and work onerous, and simply see the place it takes you,” he added. “You possibly can solely do nearly as good as you’re. I am simply making an attempt to be the most effective I can. …. It’s at all times good anytime you’ll be able to submit a very good spherical in a serious championship, it provides to your aura and your confidence for positive.”
The tip of Spherical 2 was suspended late Friday, with the spherical scheduled to renew at 5:15 a.m. MDT with 15 golfers nonetheless but to complete their rounds. That features Zac Blair, the previous BYU golfer and reigning Utah Open champion who’s tied for 67th at 1-under, only one stroke above the cutline, with two holes to play.
Dan Horner clinches third Utah Mid-Newbie title with 73
One of many elder statesmen within the Utah Mid-Newbie ranks safeguarded his third title Friday at Bonneville Golf Course.
Dan Horner, who gained Mid-Newbie titles in 2011 and 2017, added his third by capturing 73 within the remaining spherical to complete with a 54-hole whole of 210. The 46-year-old Horner, the 2008 state novice champion who turned professional and later regained his novice standing, took a two-shot lead over St. George’s Daren Johnson and held on for the win.
“It is good to win,”Horner informed Fairways Media. “I nonetheless have some capability to play good golf. Lots of it comes all the way down to focus at instances, relying on what you have got happening in life, work, or no matter it could be. It is typically onerous to get a transparent thoughts at this age with plenty of tasks.”
JT Timmons, Devin Tovey, Brandon Hargett and Steele DeWald completed tied for third at 214. Hargett gained low senior honors by 5 photographs.
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